Venus Williams uncorked one of the fastest serves ever

It had been a rough summer for Venus Williams. The 33-year-old tennis great struggled with injuries, won just two of seven matches and fell to No. 63 in the WTA rankings. She hasn’t let the troubles get the best of her. On Thursday, Venus won a three-set marathon against a player 14 years her junior and advancedto the semifinals of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.

In doing so, she hit what might have been the fastest serve of all time.

Radar guns are notoriously unreliable — at least that’s what I tell the police every time I get pulled over — but the serve came off the racket like a missile. If it wasn’t 209 kph, it had to be close.

Either way, Venus won’t officially be surpassing her fastest serve, which she set five years ago. As Kevin Fischer of the WTA explained, the company that tracks official serve records wasn’t in Tokyo this week.

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